Is getServletContext() officially supported in GAE?
- is it ok if servers are distributed among diff locations?
- performance?
- could I use 'synchronize' within the doPost or in a task queue before updating a value in the context?
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It's part of the basic servlet spec, so yes, it's supported. However, as the docs say:
In the case of a web application marked "distributed" in its deployment descriptor, there will be one context instance for each virtual machine. In this situation, the context cannot be used as a location to share global information (because the information won't be truly global). Use an external resource like a database instead.
Nick Johnson
2010-04-01 07:58:49
can i mark a gae as non distributed?
bach
2010-04-01 08:06:28
No - App Engine is fundamentally a distributed infrastructure.
Nick Johnson
2010-04-01 09:19:26
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You can use the ServletContext but there will be one context per instance of your app. So you can't rely on the ServletContext to share information globally. You do have alternatives though (and good ones at that) - use either memcache or the datastore.
Keyur
2010-04-01 20:45:37